Eagerly sniffing, Baraka dashes across a stubble field. He can't see very well, but his sense of smell is extremely well-developed. Because Baraka, a giant hamster rat with an important job to do: ...

Magawa, a rat that detected more than 100 landmines during its life, has died in Cambodia. The male African giant pouched rat was eight and had sniffed out explosives for several years before retiring ...